The Latest Breaking News from Michael Winterbottom

Rob Brydon originally opposed playing fictional version of himself in The Trip

The 61-year-old is renowned for his comedy roles.

Evening Standard · Oct 17

24 Hour Party People review – daring metatextual paean to the Manchester music scene

Michael Winterbottom’s freewheeling 2002 film about Tony Wilson, champion of post-punk bands, couldn’t have starred anyone but Steve Coogan

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7

Michael Winterbottom on 24 Hour Party People: ‘Steve Coogan was perfect as Tony Wilson’

The film that captured the chaotic, brilliant music scene in Manchester between the mid-Seventies to the early Nineties is celebrating its 24th anniversary with a re-release to cinemas

The Independent UK · Oct 2

TV tonight: the art wunderkind behind an $86m art fraud scandal

Inigo Philbrick, who spent two years in prison, tells his story in this two-parter. Plus, a macabre discovery in Limbs in the Loch. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2025

The Thursday Murder Club to The Godfather Part II: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan lead a star-packed adaptation of Richard Osman’s popular murder mystery series – plus Francis Ford Coppola’s Oscar-winning mafia classic

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2025

Steve Coogan says he now ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher because of Keir Starmer’s politics

‘I never thought I’d say that,’ Alan Partridge star admitted

The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2025

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon announce The Trip’s return with season five in the Northern Lights

Series was previously thought to be over after the pair’s Greece-set instalment in 2020

The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2025

Steve Coogan spared driving ban after plea to save new series of The Trip with Rob Bryson

Steve Coogan said crew on The Trip with Rob Brydon would be affected if he received a driving ban

Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2025

‘It’s normalised. I was gawping’: Imogen Poots on making a movie in the West Bank

The actor was told to act like smoke by Terrence Malick and watched Peter Bogdanovich soak his cravat in iced water every day before he wore it. But nothing shocked her as much as filming her new drama set in a Palestinian school

The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024

Shoshana review – Michael Winterbottom’s compelling romantic thriller set in 30s Palestine

This partly factual drama about the bright young things of British Mandate Tel Aviv offers insights into the politics of the time

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024